Towards the wee hours of the morning, after many magic experiments, Lucien finally learned and mastered the five informal magics of "Starry Eye", "Frost Ray", "Forbidden Light", "Mage's Hand" and "Acid Splash".

Comparing the witch's own records, Lucien found that the time for analyzing magic, learning magic, and mastering magic by herself was surprisingly fast, except for the "runaway ring" that the witch did not understand and forcibly mastered, the elemental magic she was good at "acid sputtering" and "frost rays" were generally three to four days, twenty hours, hundreds of magic experiments and spell casting exercises to analyze and master, while Lucian, "acid sputtering" was used five times, "frost rays" were used seven times, "starry eyes" were used ten times, and only "forbidden light" was used Due to the lack of prior analysis and understanding, it took 30 times to master.

In Lucian's opinion, the main reason is that the spell structure seems to be based on a mathematical model, and then integrates his own understanding of this magical construction process, and the model structure of informal magic is just a simple rune shape, which is equivalent to the level of plane geometry of the six-pointed star in elementary and high school, and after reviewing the literature in the library for a while, the analysis of most informal magic has become very simple.

As for the understanding of the magic construction process, Lucien also relied on past knowledge, such as understanding "acid sputtering" as making sulfuric acid from sulfur, but when it came to the forbidden light technique, Lucien could not rely on his previous knowledge to understand, and could only think so-so that the reverse destruction of the structure of the "fluorescent grass" could allow it to actively absorb light and not reflect, and the result was not bad, but it was not good, and it took many exercises to master.

This made Lucien reflect on himself: "You can't rely too much on the knowledge of the past, the magic of this world should have its own unique place, although some of it can be combined with the knowledge of physics, chemistry, etc., but the others have to be analyzed slowly, after all, the elements and rules of this world are likely to be different from those of the earth, and they are paradoxical, such as the precious materials such as mythril and pure gold recorded by witches, such as what can be used to rely on astrology to divinate good fortune and fate." ”

As for the Runaway Ring, Lucien was able to reduce the cast time to its current limit so quickly because Lucien fully understood that it was a gravitational magic.

After regaining his mental strength after ten minutes of quiet rest, Lucien began to simply deal with the marks left behind, such as the corroded stone surface.

"The power of informal magic is really not strong enough, the frost ray can only directly kill an adult if it hits the heart and throat and other vital points, causing cardiac arrest and suffocation, otherwise it will have to hit all three frost rays, if it is only hit, at most it will make people suffer severe frostbite, and their movements and thoughts become slow, and the acid splash will also hit the key point due to the concentration and strength of the acid. Lucien calmly analyzed the apprentice-level magic he knew, and was not much disappointed, although many of the magic did not seem to be strong, as long as they were used well, the effect was equally amazing on specific occasions and at certain times.

After processing the traces, Lucien kept the spell casting materials in his pocket hidden and easily accessible, and then did not return to the surface, but continued to explore the sewers in the direction of the slum outlet.

This is because, Lucien has considered that if you want to find the black corpse mushroom, you must first find the carrion, and in the case that the cemetery is likely to be secretly monitored by the church, then in addition to the dead beasts and humans in the Mezel Black Forest, the sewer is the only place where there is hope to find the carrion, after all, there are many poor people and beggars living here, and they don't even have shrouds, if there are no friends and relatives who know about it, it is not excluded that no one knows the possibility of dying quietly in the depths of the sewers, as for the dead animals, Rotten pieces of meat that have been thrown down the drain are not uncommon.

Moreover, the witch also explored in the sewers, first for the black corpse mushroom, and later to find the origin of the red-eyed rat, but she never encountered danger, so Lucien dared to explore this sewer first.

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The mental power spread, vaguely sensing the surroundings, and Lucien walked cautiously in the sewers.

In the past twenty minutes, Lucien had explored several places, and found three carrion corpses, two rats and a strange jelly-shaped animal, but unfortunately none of them had black corpse mushrooms growing on them.

Turning around a corner, Lucian's eyes widened and he finally spotted the beggars living in the sewers.

This section of the sewer is very wide, and in the middle is a dark river that flows quietly with some garbage, and it will flow all the way to the outlet, and join the Belém River, and on each side of the stone road, there are rows of rags, clay pots, and other things, and several beggars whose clothes are so tattered that they show a lot of skin are gathering on the side of the road, I don't know what the road is doing.

Seeing that it was only a beggar, Lucien did not evade it, and that he had been discovered, so he walked steadily through the other side of the road.

"Young man, the sewers are not the place for you, what is your purpose?" Among the beggars stood an old man who looked to be in his sixties, with bulging ribs and unusually shriveled, but his voice was about forty years old at most.

No matter how shabby and cheap Lucien was in his linen blouse, no matter how cheap he was, he could no longer conceal his pauper's identity, but he was as gorgeous as a nobleman compared to these beggars, at least it didn't rot to the point of revealing most of his skin, at least it was clean, so that the old man recognized at a glance that Lucien was not a "native" of the sewers.

Lucien smiled and replied, "I have a friend who lives in the sewers, and I'm here to find him. "Confident in his speech, full of style, he doesn't seem to take these beggars seriously, because in this dark sewer where there is no law, it is best to show yourself strong and show yourself in this dark sewer where there is no law.

Behind the thin old man, several other beggars stood up, staring at Lucien with fierce and greedy eyes, but Lucien glanced around them without showing weakness, showing off his relatively strong figure and the dagger that faintly glowed coldly.

This made them subconsciously avoid Lucian's gaze.

Watching Lucien walk forward step by step, the shriveled old man suddenly laughed: "Young man, I see that you are not well dressed, and you have a dagger in your hand, it seems that you are not doing something right." ”

Lucien was a little surprised that he would talk to him, thought for a moment, and replied coldly: "It's none of your business. ”

The shriveled old man smiled: "No matter what, it can be seen that you are having a hard time." Since a young man like you who works so hard and struggles so hard can't eat white bread and beef every day, I think it's definitely not your fault. The Religion of Truth tells us that every man is a lamb of the Lord, and that the nobles can live a life of luxury, while the poor who believe in Him cannot change their fate, and that they are all born sinful equally!"

"I'm not interested in what you're saying, don't talk to me anymore. Lucien's tone was cold.

Although this shriveled old man said very vaguely, he didn't leave a handle for people, and it was definitely not clear if he changed others, but from his words, Lucian smelled a familiar smell, that is, the smell of being preached, and from what he meant, it was definitely not the Truth God Cult, as for other gods or devils, Lucien is not interested in it for the time being, and if he does not have enough strength, he rashly touches these, which is self-defeating.

Don't let him talk too much, because the more he knows, the more he can't leave, and under the control of the Cult of Truth, spreading other sects is an absolute crime at the stake, and these beggars will not risk leaking the news.

The shriveled old man and several beggars didn't expect Lucien to refuse so simply and directly, and couldn't help but stare at Lucian angrily, as if he had been desecrated with something precious.

"Would you like to try my dagger?" Lucien shook the dagger in his hand, and walked away calmly and steadily.

As they crisscrossed the sewers by a dark river, Lucien was keenly aware that in the place they had been surrounded was a clean black cloth with a crooked, silver-glowing horn drawn on it.

The thin old man thought back to what he had said, and felt that he had not revealed anything, just like the complaint of an ordinary pauper, but he only focused the complaint on the noble, and at the same time he measured Lucian's age, physical condition, and the dagger in his hand, so he reluctantly sat down again.

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After leaving the beggars and walking through the sewers for more than ten minutes, the sound of water suddenly became louder in Lucian's ears.

"It looks like we're at the outlet, and it's supposed to be by the Belém River outside. Lucien saw that the river had become slightly turbulent and flowed towards a hole covered with a large barbed wire fence, so he walked slowly along the side of the road, searching for the rotting corpses in the most rubbish area.

All the way to the barbed wire, Lucien found nothing, and was slightly disappointed, ready to return to the ground.

But when Lucien turned around and casually glanced at the part of the barbed wire that came into contact with the water, he was surprised to find that the place below where the barbed wire and the water surface touched the surface of the water seemed to be absent from the fluorescent light and the shaking of the water waves.

Curious, Lucien walked to the side, shook it, lifted the barbed wire, and looked closely, and there must have been a big hole under the barbed wire.

Before he could tell whether it was broken naturally or vandalized, Lucien saw a large black object slowly float up in front of him, as if it had been violently shaken by the barbed wire just now.

When it slowly floated to the surface of the water, under the impact of the dark river, hitting the barbed wire, Lucien saw clearly that it was a swollen corpse, the muscles on its face and body had rotted a lot, and the outline could only be vaguely recognized, and the clothes were covered with garbage, some of which were very buoyant.

Lucien couldn't resist the disgust of seeing the carrion corpse, and carefully looked for any black corpse mushrooms on his body, although there was little hope, after all, it was soaked in water, maybe there was a surprise?

Looking at it, Lucian's brows furrowed, because the cause of death of this corpse was very strange, his chest was broken, and he had just probed with a dagger, and found that his heart was gone, and it looked like it had been dug up alive.

"Who is so cruel?" Lucien looked the corpse up and down, and suddenly, at the waist of the corpse, a money bag was found entangled, "Why is it a little familiar?"

Picking it up with a dagger, Lucien took a closer look: "This is my money bag!"

This is the money bag that Lucien was snatched by the gangsters and didn't have time to get back, and it actually appeared on a strange rotting corpse in the sewers.

Surprised, not caring about the disgust, Lucien looked at the corpse's face seriously:

"Andrey?"

I had an idea in my heart, the more Lucien looked at it, how could Andre of Aaron's gang die here?!